NORRISTOWN—The Montgomery County Controller’s Office is of recalculating how much a “handful” employees of Parkhouse Providence Pointe need to be paid in unused vacation, sick and personal time.

Some employees of the Upper Providence geriatric facility, which was formerly owned by the county, recently saw money put into their bank accounts and then taken out again due to data entry errors involving a $2 million payout to the county’s former employees at Parkhouse, who now work for Mid-Atlantic LLC.

Montgomery County Controller Stewart Greenleaf Jr. said Friday his office is working to rectify the mistake, and he hopes to have the correct amount of money paid to the county’s former employees by next week.

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“The only money that was taken out was from employees who were given an overage,” Greenleaf said.

The data entry responsible for the error was done over a short period of time because the controller’s office had to wait until the sale of the geriatric center was final before the payouts could begin, he said.

The error initially affected many of the employees, Greenleaf said, but it was caught early enough that all but a “handful” of the excessive payouts were remedied immediately. As of Friday morning, about 10 employees were still affected, he added.

As a part of the sale, employees were terminated from the county payroll and transferred to Mid-Atlantic. The county was then responsible for paying employees for unused vacation, sick and personal days.